Antonia Estela Pérez is a Chilean-American clinical herbalist and community organizer based in New York City. She is the co-founder of Herban Cura and the collective known as Brujas. Her work bridges the relationships between rural and urban spaces through land stewardship and medicine crafting. Antonia possesses over a decade of experience in environmental studies and traditional herbal medicine practices. She has apprenticed with several elders across the Americas and Southeast Asia to deepen her botanical knowledge. Her passion involves sharing open source pedagogy that interrupts notions of individualism and separation from the natural world.